Timber Collection (page 12)

Woodworm and Dry Rot
Examples of damage caused by woodworm and dry rot, to timber taken from St. Marys Church, Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England. Date: 1950s

Beeleigh Abbey, near Maldon, Essex, England. The building dates back to the late 12th century, although the 13th century Chapter House is the chief remaining relic. Date: late 12th century

Cheyney Court Winchester
Cheyney Court (or The Cheyneys ) and Gateway, Winchester, Hampshire, England. Date: 15th century

Elizabethan Gatehouse
The beautiful black and white gatehouse of Stokesay Castle, Shropshire, England, dates from circa 1570, and was probably more for ornamental than defemsive purposes. Date: late 16th century

Tudor House Museum
The Tudor House Museum, Southampton, England. Built in the 1530s. Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I are all reputed to have stayed here. Date: 15th century

Hadleigh Guildhall
The ancient timber-framed Guild House - or Hall, at Hadleigh, Suffolk, England (Before restoration). Date: 15th century

COCK AND BELL INN
Cyclists stop to admire the Cock and Bell Inn, at High Easter, Essex, England. Date: 1930s

St. Crispins Chapel, a fine stone and timbered building at Colwall, Herefordshire, England. Date: Medieval

Tudor Hunting Lodge
Queen Elizabeths Hunting Lodge, Epping Forest, Essex, England. This splendid timber- framed three-storey building was used by royalty when on hunting trips in the forest. Date: 16th century

Tudor Cottage
An ancient Tudor cottage (now a museum) in the picturesque village of Ashwell, Hertfordshire, England. Date: 16th century

Training in an American army camp, France, WW1
A training exercise in an American army camp in France during the First World War. Date: early 1918

Cutting a tree near Amiens, France, WW1
Two men cutting a tree at sawmills near Amiens and Albert, northern France, during the First World War. Date: November 1916

Timber Wolf and Coyote, surround a fallen antelope Date: 20th century

Captured German engineer park, Western Front, WW1
The entrance to a German engineer park, containing much material, captured by the Canadians during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Lake Geneva, looking toward Lausanne, Switzerland Date: 1915

Craftsman at a cabinet makers, Shoreditch, London
An old craftsman finishes off a drawer with a plane, at a Shoreditch cabinet makers. 1940s

Cabinet makers, Shoreditch, London 1940s
Two men operate a machine at a cabinet makers in Shoreditch, London. 1940s

Selecting timber at a cabinet makers, Shoreditch, London
A man selects a piece of wood at a cabinet makers in Shoreditch, London. 1940s

Cabinet maker, Shoreditch, London 1940s
A man screws doors to a cabinet or cupboard at a cabinet makers in Shoreditch, London. 1940s

Sawmills at Medevja-gora, during Russian Civil War
The sawmills near the river at Medevja-gora (Medvedja-gora, Medvezhya Gora, now known as Medvezhyegorsk, Republic of Karelia, north western Russia)

Switzerland - Two women carrying logs - Contadine
Switzerland - Two Swiss rural farm women, standing on a high road in the morning light, carrying logs in huge wicker backpack baskets. Date: circa 1910s

Australia - Mauri Pine, Queensland Date: circa 1910s

Cutting timber
Trees are felled in front of Sofia Albertina Church, 1960. Date: 1960

France - Pau - The Chateau and Ox carts
Ox carts in the courtyard of the Chateau at Pau, Framce Date: circa 1910s

View of Langenburg, Baden Wurttemberg, Germany
View of the town of Langenburg in the state of Baden Wurttemberg, Germany, showing the timber-framed town gate and town hall. 2010

Cutting Huge Logs
Two men operating a huge industrial chainsaw to cut equally huge felled tree trunks into logs. Date: 1950s

Building a fishing boat, St Ives, Cornwall
Andrew Besley, boat builder, building a 20 foot traditional wooden fishing boat at St Ives, Cornwall. It is designed to work off a steep pebble beach of the kind found in East Devon

Middle aged man with spaniel, Mid Wales
A middle aged man sits on a large felled tree trunk in a country house garden somewhere in Mid Wales, with a spaniel at his side

Clog makers in the Wye Valley, Mid Wales
A large group of clog makers in the Wye Valley, probably in the Mid Wales area

Loggers at work in the Far East
A group of loggers at work with a rectangular saw, somewhere in the Far East

Boats off Llangwm, near Haverfordwest, South Wales
A coal boat and a fishing vessel off the coast at Llangwm, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. The village is located on the western bank of the Cleddau Estuary

View of the Castle, with timber, Haverfordwest, South Wales
A distant view of the Castle from Old Bridge Street, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales, with a pile of timber in the foreground

Evidence of side movement, Tirpentwys Colliery, South Wales
Evidence of side movement, with a broken prop on the left, in a coal seam at Tirpentwys Colliery, near Pontypool in South Wales

Timber supports in a South Wales mine
Timber supports in a mine in South Wales

Houses by water
Picturesque brick and timber houses in winter by the edge of a pond or lake

Parish Workhouse, Hawkhurst, Kent
A timber framed building on the Moor in Hawkhurst, Kent, that once served as the parish workhouse. Children play nearby and an older boy carries a gardening fork and other tools

Parish Workhouse, Frittenden, Kent
A large timber framed building that once served as the Frittenden parish workhouse, Kent. An oast house stands at the left

Parish Workhouse, Brenchley, Kent
A large timber framed building that once served as the Brenchley parish workhouse. It is believed to have opened in 1732

College Almshouses, Cobham, Kent
Timber Porch at the College Almshouses, Cobham, Kent. The card was published by the pub ( The Leather Bottle ) across the street from the almshouses!

Timber-framed houses, Quedlinburg, Germany
Old, renovated timber-framed houses in the Kornmarkt (Cornmarket) in the medieval centre of the town of Quedlinburg, Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony Anhalt), Germany

Felling a giant fir tree in Oregon, USA. The lower bark has been stripped and a thin cut has been made through the trunk into which two wedges have been forced

Great Yarmouth Docks
Great Yarmouth Dockyards. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Old timber-framed buildings, St Gallen, Switzerland
View of some old, timber-framed buildings with a restaurant on the ground floor in the old part of St Gallen, Switzerland

Elephant shifting large pieces of timber
An elephant removing a large piece of timber from a large stack, India

Poster depicting Timber Stacking
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting an elephant stacking timber

Carpenters saw a large log
A team of carpenters use a long two-person saw to split a large trunk log into planks. Watercolour Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Italy - Ox Wagon
An Ox wagon heading along a steeply-descending lane through an Italian village, transporting a large load of wood

Parish Workhouse, Steyning, Sussex
The medieval timber-framed building on Mouse Lane, Steyning, Sussex, that once served as the parish workhouse. Outside are a man with a beard

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